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Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 52

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This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Jeremiah 52 (closely paralleled by 2 Kings 25), displaying the King James Version with embedded Strong's concordance numbers alongside the Greek Septuagint (LXX) for direct textual comparison. The passage narrates the final days of the Judean monarchy: Zedekiah's eleven-year reign, Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem beginning in Zedekiah's ninth year, the city's fall after famine, Zedekiah's capture and blinding, and the Babylonian destruction of the Temple and city walls. It then catalogs the systematic stripping of Temple treasures — bronze pillars, the molten sea, sacred vessels — and records three waves of deportation totaling 4,600 captives. The text closes on a faint note of hope: after 37 years of captivity, the Babylonian king Evil-merodach releases the exiled Judean king Jehoiachin from prison and grants him a place of honor at the royal table. The distinctive feature of this presentation is its dual-witness format, making it useful for text-critical study — notably, the Septuagint version omits certain verses present in the KJV (e.g., vv. 15, 28–30 appear to differ or be condensed) and shows variant readings in names and details, which are precisely the kind of divergences scholars use to reconstruct transmission history.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 52

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